More evidence for mild influenza H5N1 infections
…from patients and placed in culture. Next, pools of overlapping peptides that span most of the influenza viral proteins were added to the cells. These peptides were derived from influenza…
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Influenza H5N1 virus versus ferrets, round two
…of influenza viruses among ferrets, but it provides no information about human to human transmission. Failure to publish this work would have substantially restricted our understanding of influenza transmission. The…
Origin of the H5N1 storm
…published. Curiously, the titles of the paper are different. The original: Aerosol transmission of avian influenza H5N1 virus. The published version: Airborne transmission of influenza A/H5N1 virus between ferrets. The…
Avian influenza H7N7 virus outbreak: Lessons for H7N9
An outbreak of high-pathogenicity avian influenza H7N7 virus that took place on 255 poultry farms in the Netherlands during 2003 has been used to provide clues about the current avian…
The neuraminidase of influenza virus
…inhibition of virus infection because virions cannot spread from one cell to another. This article is part of Influenza 101, a series of posts about influenza virus biology and pathogenesis….
A WORD on the constraints of influenza virus evolution
…the nucleoprotein (NP) of influenza virus. Between 1968 and 2007, 39 mutations appeared in the NP RNA of influenza virus H3N2. Because sequences of this viral RNA are available each…